Name: Easy gingerbread biscuits
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 350g flour; 1 tsp cinnamon powder; 3 tsp ground ginger; 150g unrefined cane sugar; 50g Golden Syrup; 100g butter ordairy-free margarine; 1 egg; 1 tsp baking soda

Easy gingerbread biscuits

7 Dec 2015

by Dinna

Prep Time

10 minutes

Cook Time

10 minutes

Total Time

20 minutes

Background

These gingerbread biscuits are really easy to make and yummy to eat. You and your kids can decorate them according to your liking - you can use chocolate or icing pens, glitter, fondant, butter-cream, desiccated coconut - or just dust with icing sugar. They're not only delicious snacks but make lovely gifts, decorations and party food. The dairy-free version works well too!

Ingredients

350g flour
1 tsp cinnamon powder
3 tsp ground ginger
150g unrefined cane sugar
50g Golden Syrup
100g butter ordairy-free margarine
1 egg
1 tsp baking soda

Instructions

Heat the butter, sugar and syrup in a saucepan until the sugar melts. Turn off the heat.
Mix the flour in a mixing bowl with the spices.
Mix the baking soda with 1 tsp water.
Beat the eggs slightly.
Make a well in the middle of the flour mixture, then add the sugar syrup, eggs and baking soda. Mix gently with a wooden spatula, then rest in the fridge, covered, for about an hour.
Knead the dough on a lightly floured board. If the dough is still too soft, put it back to the refrigerator for a bit longer (see Tips).
Preheat the oven to 190°C.
Make two balls from the dough and roll each out to a 5mm thick pastry. Using Christmas motif cutters, stamp out shapes. Re-roll any leftover dough and press out more cookies.
If you want to hang the biscuits on the Christmas tree, then using a straw push out holes on the top of each biscuits (at least 1 cm in from the edge)
Place the cookies on non-stick or lined baking trays and bake until golden, for about 10-12 minutes.
Leave to cool on a wire rack.
Decorate them when completely cooled.

Tips

You can speed up the resting time if you put the dough into the freezer instead of the fridge - 30 minutes should be enough.
You can keep the dough in the fridge for up to a week, so you can make fresh cookies during the festivities.